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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "not good for either of the Houses. I want to plead with you to do it soberly because we are setting precedent. The issues raised were about our own Members flouting our Standing Orders and our own utterances in public about issues which are live before Parliamentary Committees or on the Floor of the House. There is too much noise. However, the noise is amongst the accused. There is too much noise particularly in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The noise is amongst the accused Members. When a matter is before this House, even if it did not involve Members of Parliament, the rules are that we cannot comment about it in funerals. However, that is what seems to be happening. There is too much noise about the House Business Committee doing this and the Speaker doing that. You said it this afternoon that this is a House of rules. We cannot expect to audit and checkmate the Executive if we do not understand the rules or refuse to play by the rules. I do not agree that any issues regarding the investigations by hon. Cheboi should be canvassed out there by the Members of the Public Accounts Committee. The ruling that sent the issue to the Committee was that they be investigated on the issues between them such as the accusations of corruption. Another one has just erupted, namely, the one on the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives. It has erupted. This is about Kenyans. What is happening in that Committee is a very interesting thing and should concern you and us. When it is said that Members of this Committee, who are our own Members, shared Kshs60 million not to write a good report, that is when you read on social media that Kenyans wish for us to be bombed. I suggested in Mombasa and in the House Business Committee that this does not concern you, but it is a good time for hon. Duale on the other side and this side to agree to disband Parliamentary Committees for a new reconstitution, especially the ones that keep on giving us a bad name."
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